Today...several gardeners' paths crossed as we showed up to tend our plots. First to arrive, Nelda and Gary Wallace two of the newest gardeners were busy at work planting their garden. Followed by Alva and Dave Cranford. Followed by Jeff Jekel, and his daughter Amanda. Followed by Eileen. Then, the unexpected.
Dru, who lives nearby and on her way home from buying groceries, stopped off to offer flowers she'd found discarded. With the ground outside the garden perimeter impossibly hardened soil, the group assembled a temporary Garden Entrance planting using bricks and top soil.
Dru prepares the entrance planter.
Eileen and Dru at work on Planter 1...
Nelda and Gary at work on Planter 2...
L to R: Nelda, Dru, Gary, Dave, Amanda, Jeff, and Nelda (with Alva behind the lens).
Discarded flowers given a 2nd chance at providing seasonal beauty.
It was one of those random afternoons of fun, laughter, and teamwork that happens just by chance. And one of the many reasons the Garden has fast become a passion of many people who not long ago were strangers to one another.
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